Mobile Security Wiki

Please use left sidebar to navigate between sections. Last Updated on: 12-8-2016

Forensics Tools

bandicoot - A Python toolbox to analyze mobile phone metadata. It provides a complete, easy-to-use environment for data-scientist to analyze mobile phone metadata. With only a few lines of code, load your datasets, visualize the data, perform analyses, and export the results.

pySimReader - It allows users to write out arbitrary raw SMS PDUs to a SIM card.

Development Tools

Android SDK - The Android software development kit (SDK) includes a comprehensive set of development tools. These include a debugger, libraries, a handset emulator based on QEMU, documentation, sample code, and tutorials.

Android NDK - The NDK is a toolset that allows you to implement parts of your app using native-code languages such as C and C++.

ADT Bundle - The Android Developer Tools(ADT) bundle is a single download that contains everything for developers to start creating Android Application

Smali and Baksmali - smali/baksmali is an assembler/disassembler for the dex format used by dalvik, Android's Java VM implementation.

SPARTA - The SPARTA project (Static Program Analysis for Reliable Trusted Apps) is building a toolset to verify the security of mobile phone applications.

Thresher - Thresher is a static analysis tool that specializes in checking heap reachability properties. Its secret sauce is using a coarse up-front points-to analysis to focus a precise symbolic analysis on the alarms reported by the points-to analysis.

VectorAttackScanner - A tool to analyze Android apps to detect points to attack, such as intents, receivers, services, processes and libraries

Dynamic Analysis Tools

Android Hooker - This project provides various tools and applications that can be use to automaticaly intercept and modify any API calls made by a targeted application.

AppAudit - Online tool (including an API) to detect hidden data leaks in apps using both dynamic and static analysis.

Drozer - Drozer allows you to search for security vulnerabilities in apps and devices by assuming the role of an app and interacting with the Dalvik VM, other apps' IPC endpoints and the underlying OS.

Marvin - Marvin is a system that analyzes Android applications in search of vulnerabilities and allows tracking of an app through its version history.

Inspeckage - Inspeckage is a tool developed to offer dynamic analysis of Android applications. By applying hooks to functions of the Android API, Inspeckage will help you understand what an Android application is doing at runtime.

PATDroid - A collection of tools and data structures for analyzing Android applications and the system itself. Forms the basis of AppAudit.

dextra - dextra utility began its life as an alternative to the AOSP's dexdump and dx --dump, both of which are rather basic, and produce copious, but unstructured output. In addition to supporting all their features, it also supports various output modes, specific class, method and field lookup, as well as determining static field values. I lated updated it to support ART (which is also one of the reasons why the tool was renamed).

Lobotomy - Lobotomy is an Android security toolkit that will automate different Android assessments and reverse engineering tasks. The goal of the Lobotomy toolkit is to provide a console environment, which would allow a user to load their target Android APK once, then have all the necessary tools without needing to exit that environment. The 1.2 release will remain open source.

Online Analyzers

Android Observatory - The Android Observatory is a web interface to a large repository of Android applications. It allows users to search or browse through thousands of Android apps and retrieve metadata for those apps.

Android Testing Distributions

Androl4b - An Android security virtual machine based on Ubuntu Mate. It includes a collection of the latest frameworks, tutorials and labs from different security geeks and researchers for reverse engineering and malware analysis

Appie - A portable software package for Android Pentesting and an awesome alternative to existing Virtual machines.It is a one stop answer for all the tools needed in Android Application Security Assessment, Android Forensics, Android Malware Analysis.

Santoku Linux - Santoku is an OS and can be run outside a VM as a standalone operating system.

Shadow OS - ShadowOS is a free tool designed by Fortify on Demand to help Security and QA teams test Android applications for security vulnerabilities. It is a custom OS based off of KitKat that intercepts specific areas of the device's operation and makes testing apps for security vulnerabilites easier.

Android Security Apps

Android IMSI-Catcher-Detector - It is an app to detect IMSI-Catchers. IMSI-Catchers are false mobile towers (base stations) acting between the target mobile phone(s) and the real towers of service providers. As such they are considered a Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack. In the USA the IMSI-Catcher technology is known under the name "StingRay".

Am I Vulnerable - AIV is an Android security app that notifies the user of publicly known vulnerabilities found in the installed version of apps on the device.

Android Vulnerability Test Suite - In the spirit of open data collection, and with the help of the community, let's take a pulse on the state of Android security. NowSecure presents an on-device app to test for recent device vulnerabilities.

NetHunter - The Kali Linux NetHunter project is the first open source Android penetration testing platform for Nexus devices. NetHunter supports Wireless 802.11 frame injection, one-click MANA Evil Access Point setups, HID keyboard (Teensy like attacks), as well as BadUSB MITM attacks – and is built upon the sturdy shoulders of the Kali Linux distribution and toolsets.

Koodous - Koodous is a collaborative platform that combines the power of online analysis tools with social interactions between the analysts over a vast APKs repository focused on the detection of fraudulent patterns in Android applications. You can download their Android application to check whether your device contain any mailicious app or not.

SecureMe Droid (SMD) - is a security application for Android devices that scans existing apps, newly installed and updated apps for known vulnerabilities and security issues.

Application Security Framework

AndroBugs - The AndroBugs Framework is an Android vulnerability analysis system that helps developers or hackers find potential security vulnerabilities in Android applications. Its commandline interface and output offer superb efficiency and accuracy.

AppMon - AppMon is a runtime security testing & profiling framework for macOS, iOS and android apps. It is useful for mobile penetration testers to validate the security issues report by a source code scanner by validating them by inspecting the API calls at runtime.
Also useful for monitoring the app’s overall activity and focus on things that seem suspicious e.g. data leaks, credentials, tokens etc. You can either use pre-defined scripts or write your own to modify the app’s functionality/logic in the runtime e.g. spoofing the DeviceID, spoofing the GPS co-ordinates, faking In-App purchases,
bypassing Apple's TouchID etc.

Qark - Quick Android Review Kit - This tool is designed to look for several security related Android application vulnerabilities, either in source code or packaged APKs. The tool is also capable of creating "Proof-of-Concept" deployable APKs and/or ADB commands, capable of exploiting many of the vulnerabilities it finds. There is no need to root the test device, as this tool focuses on vulnerabilities that can be exploited under otherwise secure conditions.

SUPER - Secure, Unified, Powerful and Extensible Rust Android Analyzer can be used to automatically analyze apps for vulnerabilities.

MARA Framework - MARA is a Mobile Application Reverse engineering and Analysis Framework. It is a tool that puts together commonly used mobile application reverse engineering and analysis tools, to assist in testing mobile applications against the OWASP mobile security threats. Its objective is to make this task easier and friendlier to mobile application developers and security professionals.

Android Malwares Related

backdoor-apk - A shell script that simplifies the process of adding a backdoor to any Android APK file.

iOS Forensic Tools

Keychain Dumper - A tool to check which keychain items are available to an attacker once an iOS device has been jailbroken.

Mac-robber - mac-robber is a digital investigation tool that collects data from allocated files in a mounted file system. This is useful during incident response when analyzing a live system or when analyzing a dead system in a lab.

SleuthKit - The Sleuth Kit® is a collection of command line tools and a C library that allows you to analyze disk images and recover files from them. It is used behind the scenes in Autopsy and many other open source and commercial forensics tools.

iOS Dynamic Analysis Tools

Appmon - AppMon is an automated framework for monitoring and tampering system API calls of native apps on iOS, Mac OS X and Android apps (upcoming). You may call it the GreaseMonkey for native mobile apps.

cycript - Cycript allows developers to explore and modify running applications on either iOS or Mac OS X using a hybrid of Objective-C++ and JavaScript syntax through an interactive console that features syntax highlighting and tab completion.

Clutch - Clutch is a high-speed iOS decryption tool. Clutch supports the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad as well as all iOS version, architecture types, and most binaries. Clutch is meant only for educational purposes and security research.

DIOS - DiOS is a practical system to perform automated dynamic privacy analysis of iOS apps. DiOS provides a highly scalable and fully automated solution to schedule apps from the official Apple App Store for privacy analysis to iOS devices. While apps are automatically executed, user interaction is simulated using random and smart execution strategies, and sensitive API calls as well as network connections are tracked.

XSecurity - A security plug-in in Xcode plus a Clang Static Analyzer Checkers for iOS application development. This plug-in aims to reduce the vulnerability made during development by detecting the vulnerability as it is being created.

iOS Reverse Engineering Tools

Flex-2 - Flex - 2 gives you the power to modify the apps and change their behaviour without having to know the intricacies of iOS development.

iRET - The iOS Reverse Engineering Toolkit is a toolkit designed to automate many of the common tasks associated with iOS penetration testing.

cycript - Cycript allows developers to explore and modify running applications on either iOS or Mac OS X using a hybrid of Objective-C++ and JavaScript syntax through an interactive console that features syntax highlighting and tab completion.

Logify - Logify takes an Objective-C header file containing a class interface and generates a Logos file hooking all methods in the given class, and for each hook logging the call of the method (with parameters) to the syslog

xaml spy - XAML Spy provides a real-time view of your app's state. Examine and modify the properties of any element on-the-fly and see the changes reflected immediately in the running app.

Dotnet IL Editor - Dotnet IL Editor (DILE) allows disassembling and debugging .NET 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0 applications without source code or .pdb files. It can debug even itself or the assemblies of the .NET Framework on IL level.

Reflexil - Reflexil is an assembly editor and runs as a plug-in for Red Gate's Reflector, ILSpy and Telerik's JustDecompile. Reflexil is using Mono.Cecil, written by Jb Evain and is able to manipulate IL code and save the modified assemblies to disk. Reflexil also supports C#/VB.NET code injection.

Binscope Binary Analyzer - BinScope is a Microsoft verification tool that analyzes binaries on a project-wide level to ensure that they have been built in compliance with Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) requirements and recommendations.